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Fic rec
Sometimes I really regret my personal policy of not reccing works-in-progress; waiting for each update for this one tried my resolve to the utmost. But! The wait is over. Ocotillo_dawn has finished her fantastic original novel-length slavefic The Violet and the Tom, tag index here.
In what might have been the middle ages, had neither Alexander the Great nor Jesus the prophet died, the Greek State is a powerful economic force in southern Europe, and slavery is a profitable and well-entrenched social institution. Nygell, a Lord of the Northern Isles, is given the gift of a Grecian slave by the King. Nygell wants no such responsibility.
93,000 words, institutionalized slavery, D/s, Bondage, pain. Specifics constitute spoilers, but not intensely violent, no extreme squicks (no necr./scat./best./depressing endings). References to minors, but no direct scenes.
From the author's note following the fic, it appears as though some editing may be done in the future, but the story has both an ending and an epilogue, and I can wait no longer to reccommend it.
In other news, in the absence of available raisins for ants-on-a-log (celery and peanut butter), jelly works just as well. Strawberry jelly anyway, haven't tried any others.
Sometimes I really regret my personal policy of not reccing works-in-progress; waiting for each update for this one tried my resolve to the utmost. But! The wait is over. Ocotillo_dawn has finished her fantastic original novel-length slavefic The Violet and the Tom, tag index here.
In what might have been the middle ages, had neither Alexander the Great nor Jesus the prophet died, the Greek State is a powerful economic force in southern Europe, and slavery is a profitable and well-entrenched social institution. Nygell, a Lord of the Northern Isles, is given the gift of a Grecian slave by the King. Nygell wants no such responsibility.
93,000 words, institutionalized slavery, D/s, Bondage, pain. Specifics constitute spoilers, but not intensely violent, no extreme squicks (no necr./scat./best./depressing endings). References to minors, but no direct scenes.
From the author's note following the fic, it appears as though some editing may be done in the future, but the story has both an ending and an epilogue, and I can wait no longer to reccommend it.
In other news, in the absence of available raisins for ants-on-a-log (celery and peanut butter), jelly works just as well. Strawberry jelly anyway, haven't tried any others.